Dr. Kapil Agarwal

Dr. Kapil Agarwal has been practicing as Senior Consultant Neurology at Paras Hospitals in Gurgaon since April 2009. He is also Assistant Professor with the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) in Manesar, Gurgaon, since 2010. In addition he can be consulted privately by prior appointment at his clinic, the Advanced Brain & Nerve Centre, located on New Railway Road in Gurgaon.

Dr. Kapil Agarwal had a bright academic career, being amongst the toppers throughout the span of his medical education. A Gold Medalist MBBS graduate from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College in Aligarh, Dr. Agarwal also received the MD (Medicine) postgraduate degree through the same institution. He then studied and trained at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi for the DM (Neurology) superspeciality degree, which he was awarded in 2008.

Dr. Agarwal has Neurology and Internal Medicine experience of over 10 years at tertiary care hospitals and research centers such as AIIMS and GB Pant Hospital in New Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh, and now at Paras Hospitals in Gurgaon. He also had a brief stint as Consultant Neurologist at QRG Central Hospital and Research Centre, Faridabad. He has research experience in the fields of Stroke, Tropical Neurology and Neuro-Ophthalmology, with national and international publications in related topics. He has been actively engaged in the treatment of neurological diseases such as stroke, neuroinfections, epilepsy, headache, movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, nerve and muscle disorders, critical care and emergency neurology.

Dr. Kapil Agarwal runs special facilities at Paras Hospitals for:

• Thrombolysis for acute stroke program.
• Botox in movement disorders, headaches, spasticity.
• Critical Care Neurology.
• Factor VIII in intracerebral hemorrhages.
• Special Clinics for stroke, epilepsy, movement disorders and refractory headaches.
• Highly equipped Neurophysiology Laboratory with facilities for EEG, Video EEGs, nerve conduction studies, electromyography, visual and brainstem evoked potentials, repetitive nerve stimulation test and edrophonium test.
• Intra wrist injections for carpal tunnel syndrome.
• Plasmapheresis for myasthenia gravis and Guillain-Barré syndrome.